Smoke Alarms in Ringwood

Ringwood runs near 1877 people per square kilometre. Detached homes here often have a single ten-year sealed alarm from a previous owner and nothing else, which is not compliant. Sitting at about 123 metres, Ringwood has homes with accessible roof spaces on the upper level and awkward ones below.

Ringwood sits about 25 kilometres out in Maroondah. Two-storey homes are common, and each storey needs its own detection regardless of size. Maroondah covers Ringwood, but smoke alarm compliance is a state matter. What you get from us is the correct layout and a Certificate of Electrical Safety.

A job in Ringwood usually sits alongside something we already have booked in Croydon or Donvale that week. For scale, the 2021 census counted 19144 people in Ringwood, across about 10.2 square kilometres of Maroondah, postcode 3134.

A note on how Ringwood developed: In 2009, the State Government controversially approved the building of a nine-storey housing development near Ringwood Lake, without Council or public consultation. Homes from before the mid-nineties usually have no hardwired alarm unless someone added one. We are across Ringwood along with Croydon, Donvale, Heathmont and Mitcham, on the same rates and the same certificate.

From our Boronia workshop Ringwood is about 7.4 kilometres north-west, which is a short enough run that we can usually fit a look-in around another job rather than making it a separate trip. With Ringwood railway station in the middle of it, Ringwood has the pattern you would expect: closer-built older stock near the line, newer subdivision further out.